Some of the best parenting advice I’ve gotten over the years has come from what Richmond Family Magazine refers to as “real moms” during playgroups, grocery stops, and happy hours. …
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“Life today for most families is characterized more by randomness and improvisation than rhythm. Tuesday wash day? Cookies and milk after school? Sunday roast beef dinner? With both parents usually…
What parent doesn’t want calmer, happier, more secure kids? Internationally renowned family consultant Kim John Payne believes parents can use the extraordinary power of less to achieve just such a…
We meet in a sunny breakfast nook on another scorching summer day. The windows around us let in so much light we might as well be outside. Meg Medina’s eyes…
“About 40 percent of students identified getting into a ‘good college’ as more important than being a ‘good person,’” writes Richard Weissbourd, author of The Parents We Mean to Be. …
Four-year- old Eli woke up bright and early every morning that week. “Are we going to see the owls today, Mommy?” My little nature lover was completely obsessed with the…
Maybe, I love Bringing Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman because my first experience abroad was as an exchange student in Paris my sixteenth summer. Maybe, I love how this American…
Given the serious topics of the last few parenting titles I’ve blogged about, Amy Spencer’s Bright Side Up is a breath of fresh air. As parents, we know only too…
Derren Brown is a performer in England who combines the powers of suggestion and psychology into his act in order to, as he says, “seemingly predict and control human behavior.”…
“The rate and scale of change engulfing the world is creating a tidal shift in how people live and earn their living,” Ken Robinson explains. “We now need to be…
“Everywhere I go,” writes Sir Ken Robinson, “I find the same paradox. Most children think they’re highly creative; most adults think they’re not. This is a bigger issue than it…
It’s hard not to be disheartened by the findings of the 2007 study To Read or Not To Read, “Half of the adults in this country do not read either…